Senior Threat Detection Engineer
InformaticaBase Salary
$149k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a technical area and lead threat detection projects end to end, including research and feature delivery.
- Write and refine detection logic on security platforms to identify malicious activity across Salesforce infrastructure, products, employees, and customers.
- Build attack simulation scenarios and test the effectiveness, reliability, and quality of detection logic.
- Correlate and analyze network, endpoint, host, operating system, cloud, SaaS, and other security logs.
- Collaborate with CSIRT, incident response, and multiple engineering teams on organization-wide security initiatives.
- Construct complex search queries, analyze large datasets, identify false positives, and tune detection rules.
- Use coding and automation to improve threat detection and incident response workflows.
Requirements
- 6–8 years of relevant experience in threat detection, threat hunting, security incident response, or managing significant security incidents and breaches.
- Expertise developing and refining threat detection methodologies using multiple log source types.
- Strong understanding of log structures, data normalization, log correlation, complex analytic queries, and large-scale data analysis.
- Experience constructing complex search queries using SPL, YARA, or other query languages.
- Knowledge of security principles, common attack vectors, adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, the cyber kill chain, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Practical experience with SIEM, EDR, NDR, and SOAR tools and technologies.
- Coding experience with Python or other programming languages for automation.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across globally distributed, cross-functional teams.
- A related technical degree is required.
- Preferred experience with Splunk, Elastic/ELK, Flink, Chronicle, public cloud security, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Preferred undergraduate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a similar subject.
- Preferred experience with globally distributed teams, documentation and asynchronous communication, data science algorithms and methodologies, and SOAR automation platforms.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role is based within Salesforce’s globally distributed organization and involves collaboration across multiple time zones.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com